GEOG2641: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

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• Introduce students to developments and approaches in the academic field of economic geography
• Promote an appreciation of the changing and diverse ways in which geographers have theorized, conceptualized and debated the economic
• Develop understandings of the places and spaces of economies across the Global North and the Global South
• Engage critically in issues in contemporary economic geography, with reference to particular economic worlds such as worlds of production, worlds of services, worlds of markets, worlds of work, worlds of finance, worlds of debt, worlds of money, and/or digital economic worlds.

• Typical topics include:
• What is the economy?
• Corporations and Global Production Networks
• States, Governments and Production
• Commodities, Exchanges and Market Circulations
• Consumption and consumer markets
• Financial Markets and Financial Centres
• Financialisation and Economic Life
• Conflict and Cooperation at Work
• Embodiment of Work
• Digital Economic Circulations
• Services and Retail Geographies
• Debt, Money and Everyday Geographies

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Students are expected to be able to:
• Trace the development of the academic field of economic geography
• Understand key theories, concepts and debates in economic geography
• Show an appreciation of the ways in which place and space matters in global economies

Subject-specific Skills:

• Students are expected to be able to:
• Understand and synthesize key literatures in economic geography
• Reflect critically about issues in contemporary economic geography, with reference to particular economic-geographical worlds (e.g. production, work, services, markets, finance, debt, money, and/or digital economic worlds)

Key Skills:

• Students are expected to be able to:
• Demonstrate expertise in critical reflection and analysis
• Communicate effectively in written form
• Evaluate sources of evidence in contemporary public economic debates
• Demonstrate an ability to formulate critical and sophisticated arguments

• Lectures will introduce students to the academic field of economic geography, theoretical and conceptual debates, and contemporary issues in economic-geographical worlds (e.g. production, work, services, markets, finance, debt, money, and/or digital economies).
• Student small group formative discussions in workshops will allow students to collectively work through theoretical and conceptual understandings introduced in lectures and apply such understandings to contemporary issues
• Student groups will make formative presentations to the class conference held at the conclusion of the module, developing oral presentation and team-working skills and facilitating their critical reflections on the key concepts in contemporary economic geography studied in the module that will feed forward into the unseen examination.
• Summative coursework (essay, 50%), to be submitted in the first week of Term 2, will assess understandings of the places and spaces of one of the first two economic-geographical worlds studied on the module
• Online 24 hour unseen examination (50%) will test critical understanding of concepts and critical thinking with particular reference to all economic-geographical worlds studied on the module.

Formative assessment is provided in workshops and presentations to the class conference that will be held at the conclusion of Term 2 of the module. Feedback on class conference group presentations will inform the second component of summative assignment (unseen written examination)

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